Software Engineer New Grad (Data Mining) Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
First, a HackerRank challenge, which was pretty easy.
Next, a 15-minute HR call to discuss and schedule a Skype interview.
The Skype interview went well. Though, due to internet connectivity issues, we had to switch from the video call to a phone call as I couldn't hear what the interviewer was saying.
There was a real-world problem question about selecting features for a machine learning problem. After the machine learning question, a coding question using CoderPad, where you can run the code and see the results.
I did not proceed to the next round.
Questions
HackerRank: Remove 2 or more e's from a string.
Skype Interview: What features would you select for recommending only one review for a user? Upon seeing the review, the user can decide whether to go to a place or not. What machine learning algorithms would you use?
Coding Question: Draw a weighted sample from a given array in proportion.
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